A Love Song For Bobby Long
This movie is competently put together and everything, but it’s possibly the slowest moving thing I’ve ever suffered through. None of the characters seem to really give a damn about what’s going on, and the efforts to “keep it real” (there’s this speech towards the end about “invisible people, the ones you don’t notice” being interesting – yeh, just not these ones) serve only to make it lifeless. I felt the same after this as I did after My Summer of Love – I mean, I’m all for realism in movies, sometimes it can be fantastic; but most of the time, real life is deadly dull, and that’s the case here. Even the ‘surprising’ is no surprise: least of all, as I said, to the characters. That said, as the end credits rolled, I found that I felt at least like I’d been through something different. This could be a movie that improves on a second viewing – I’ve no idea if or when that will occur, though.